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What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

When I was fifteen, I used to run around reading 'Adbusters' and dumpster diving, trying to find ways to make the U.S. government unwind into chaos through hardcore punk and metal.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.